GTK+ target version [WAS Re: new dev branch stuff]

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 12:46 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Certainly. The counter argument is that we can still target the same big 
> distribution(s) as GNOME.

But even, the latest distributions aren't necessarily used/widespread.

> Another argument could be that because of the relatively long period 
> between major releases, if we target a conservative gtk version then at 
> the end of the cycle for an Xfce branch that will be quite old.

Really depends, how old is old? For me, GTK+-2.4 is not old for example.

> Anyway, I can certainly live with using 2.4. Our biggest problem may 
> actually be that gtk tends to subtly change behaviour of widgets between 
> 2.x and 2.(x+2).

That's certainly a real problem, but that needs to be addressed by GTK+
team, not us.

Cheers,
Olivier.